Gaza
An ostensible ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in October last year has not stopped Israel from continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, a group of independent experts commissioned by the U.N. said in a new report today. The report, which cataloged a series of specific incidents, said that Israel was “continuing to commit genocidal acts with the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in Gaza.” At least five people, including a 7-year-old girl, were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today. The Israeli military has killed more than 1,550 people, mostly civilians, since the so-called ceasefire was signed.
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Tanzania
Tanzanian opposition activist Twaha Mwaipaya has gone missing in Kenya, according to a police report seen by Reuters. Mwaipaya was travelling by taxi to visit friends east of the capital Nairobi when three men intercepted the car and took him away, Amnesty International researcher Sikula Oniala said. John Heche, vice-chairman of Tanzania’s main opposition CHADEMA party, whose leader Tundu Lissu is on trial for treason, urged Kenyan authorities to find the activist. “Nairobi cannot remain an abduction hub for dictators,” he said.
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Libya
President Donald Trump backtracked on disparaging remarks he made about Libya at a rally on Saturday after authorities in the country summoned the U.S. chargé d’affaires. “(U.S. Senator) Jon Ossoff personally sponsored a bill to bring armies of migrants from terror-infested countries like Libya, Yemen, Haiti, Somalia. Remember what I called them? Shithouse countries," Trump said at the rally in Georgia. Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah responded: “We will not accept Libya’s dignity and its people being used as material for electoral disputes.” Dbeibah heads one of two rival governments in Libya, with his administration headquartered in Tripoli. The other government, based in the east, also condemned the comments. While stopping short of an apology, Trump said the U.S. was committed to strengthening its bilateral relationship with Libya and thanked it for helping to “defeat ISIS” in a post on his Truth Social platform. He also praised the Libyan people. Trump finished, though, by saying that Libya “cannot remain a corridor for illegal migration.”
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